The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server, dhcpd, implements the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and the Internet Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP). DHCP allows hosts on a TCP/IP network to request and be assigned IP addresses, and also to discover information about the net- work to which they are attached.

Gopher, a method of accessing information on the Internet, is made easy with this X-Windows gopher client. Although gopher is less up-to-date than the WWW, Xgopher can still open up a portal to the vast storehouse of information available on the Internet.

The biff client and comsat server are an antiquated method of asynchronous mail notification. Although they are still supported, most users use their shells MAIL variable (or mail under csh variants) to check for mail, or a dedicated application such as xbiff or xmailbox.

The biff client and comsat server are an antiquated method of asynchronous mail notification. Although they are still supported, most users use their shells MAIL variable (or mail under csh variants) to check for mail, or a dedicated application such as xbiff or xmailbox.

Finger is a simple protocol which allows users to find information about users on other machines. This package includes a standard finger client and server. The server runs from /etc/inetd.conf, which must be modified to disable finger requests.

Finger is a simple protocol which allows users to find information about users on other machines. This package includes a standard finger client and server. The server runs from /etc/inetd.conf, which must be modified to disable finger requests.

The portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols such as NFS and NIS. The portmap server must be running on machines which act as servers for protocols which make use of the RPC mechanism. This portmapper supports hosts.{allow,deny} type access control.

The portmapper manages RPC connections, which are used by protocols such as NFS and NIS. The portmap server must be running on machines which act as servers for protocols which make use of the RPC mechanism. This portmapper supports hosts.{allow,deny} type access control.

Traceroute prints the route packets take across a TCP/IP. The names (or IP numbers if names are not available) of the machines which are routing packets from the machine traceroute is running on to the destination machine are printed, along with the time is took to receive a packet acknowledgement from that machine. This tool can be very helpfull in diagnosing networking problems.

Traceroute prints the route packets take across a TCP/IP. The names (or IP numbers if names are not available) of the machines which are routing packets from the machine traceroute is running on to the destination machine are printed, along with the time is took to receive a packet acknowledgement from that machine. This tool can be very helpfull in diagnosing networking problems.

The purpose of diald is to make it transparently appear that you have a permanent connection to a remote site. Diald sets up a "proxy" device which stands in for the physical connection to a remote site. It then monitors the proxy, waiting for packets to arrive. When interesting packets arrive it will attempt to establish the physical link to the remote site using either SLIP or PPP, and if it succeeds it will forward traffic from the proxy to the physical link. As well, diald will monitor traffic once the physical link is up, and when it has determined that the link is idle, the remote connection is terminated. The criteria for bringing the link up and taking it down are configurable at run time, and are based upon the type of traffic passing over the link. For diald configuration stuff I recommend using diald-config package. Based on RPM by Karl O. Pinc -- The Meme Factory, Inc http://www.meme.com Includes: . 2.1.xx kernel support . /proc ip_dynaddr auto setup . ip-goingdown option . dctrl fixes from .4

The purpose of diald is to make it transparently appear that you have a permanent connection to a remote site. Diald sets up a "proxy" device which stands in for the physical connection to a remote site. It then monitors the proxy, waiting for packets to arrive. When interesting packets arrive it will attempt to establish the physical link to the remote site using either SLIP or PPP, and if it succeeds it will forward traffic from the proxy to the physical link. As well, diald will monitor traffic once the physical link is up, and when it has determined that the link is idle, the remote connection is terminated. The criteria for bringing the link up and taking it down are configurable at run time, and are based upon the type of traffic passing over the link. For diald configuration stuff I recommend using diald-config package. Based on RPM by Karl O. Pinc -- The Meme Factory, Inc http://www.meme.com Includes: . 2.1.xx kernel support . /proc ip_dynaddr auto setup . ip-goingdown option . dctrl fixes from .4

The masqdialer system will allow authorized LAN users to manipulate the network interface (usually a modem) that gives the internet access on a Linux box without having to use telnet. Its based on a client/server approach so any TCP/IP enabled system should be able to take advantage of this server, if a client is written for it. Currently; Linux, Windows, NetBSD, and any system with a Java implementation or Web Browser have clients.

dhcpcd is an implementation of the DHCP client specified in draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09 (when -r option is not speci- fied) and RFC1541 (when -r option is specified). It gets the host information (IP address, netmask, broad- cast address, etc.) from a DHCP server and configures the network interface of the machine on which it is running. It also tries to renew the lease time according to RFC1541 or draft-ietf-dhc-dhcp-09. The alignment patch for Sparc and ARM came from http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/out/dhcpcd-align.patch

Samba provides an SMB server which can be used to provide network services to SMB (sometimes called "Lan Manager") clients, including various versions of MS Windows, OS/2, and other Linux machines. Samba also provides some SMB clients, which complement the built-in SMB filesystem in Linux. Samba uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocols and does NOT need NetBEUI (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol. Samba-2 features an almost working NT Domain Control capability and includes the new SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) that allows samba's smb.conf file to be remotely managed using your favourite web browser. For the time being this is being enabled on TCP port 901 via inetd. Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt document for fixup information. This binary release includes encrypted password support. Please read the smb.conf file and ENCRYPTION.txt in the docs directory for implementation details. NOTE: Red Hat Linux 5.X Uses PAM which has integrated support for Shadow passwords. Do NOT recompile with the SHADOW_PWD option enabled. Red Hat Linux has built in support for quotas in PAM.

Samba provides an SMB server which can be used to provide network services to SMB (sometimes called "Lan Manager") clients, including various versions of MS Windows, OS/2, and other Linux machines. Samba also provides some SMB clients, which complement the built-in SMB filesystem in Linux. Samba uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocols and does NOT need NetBEUI (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol. Samba-2 features an almost working NT Domain Control capability and includes the new SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) that allows samba's smb.conf file to be remotely managed using your favourite web browser. For the time being this is being enabled on TCP port 901 via inetd. Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt document for fixup information. This binary release includes encrypted password support. Please read the smb.conf file and ENCRYPTION.txt in the docs directory for implementation details. NOTE: Red Hat Linux 5.X Uses PAM which has integrated support for Shadow passwords. Do NOT recompile with the SHADOW_PWD option enabled. Red Hat Linux has built in support for quotas in PAM.

Xtraceroute is a graphical traceroute utility that shows the path your IP packets travel on a 3 dimensional rendered globe. Be sure to download the NDG data files mentioned in the INSTALL document too.

Xtraceroute is a graphical traceroute utility that shows the path your IP packets travel on a 3 dimensional rendered globe. Be sure to download the NDG data files mentioned in the INSTALL document too.